I know that I know nothing.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me.